The MuseScore 4 release is otherwise awesome (and we must credit them for this!), but they include a non-free (but gratis) optional sound renderer, Muse Sounds, and don't make it very clear they do it (edit: and Muse Hub too, same thing). They also encourage users to save their work in the cloud way too strongly.
I'm not interested in their cloud. I would be interested in Muse Sounds, but there is no way I'm going to start to rely on non-free software today. The whole point of MuseScore, besides it being beginner-friendly, is that's it's free software and Tantacrul sells this aspect very well in its first video about MuseScore by the way.
I actually told them my concerns about Muse Sounds at their FOSDEM stand after they asked me if I saw issues with the new version. Maybe if there are enough voices about this…
>They also encourage users to save their work in the cloud way too strongly.
I mean... I usually don't like those sorts of things either, but it's literally a window when you click save, before the main dialog, asking whether to save on the computer or their cloud, with a tick box if you want to skip and always save on the computer. Doesn't get much lighter than this, other than not having cloud integration at all... :)
Also worth pointing out that MuseSounds can only be installed via a proprietary (closed source) torrent client that has to be run with root privileges and runs in the background by default.
